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You need a sales force, translations, customer billing, regulatory compliance etc - I’m sure the cost of the cloud resources is negligible.

I think this is a perfectly rational approach, esp if the long term thought is to bring Fitbit into the android/pixel fold.

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The action makes sense, but the justification just sounds bogus.

Like when a company says they're making some change to "improve service" or whatever but it's actually making service worse for some people

It's a penny wise and pound foolish approach that only a monopolist could get away with.

Monopolist? Fitbit is far from the market leader, where Apple Watch completely dominates the category.

I love HN sometimes. No, Google would be the monopolist. The company that purchased a competitor ostensibly just to shut it down and reduce competition. We do actually have laws against this behavior.

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